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SECTION C THE HERALD Wednesday May Ilea Hundreds visit Industry 80 Success means Industry 81 a certainty Industry SO first Industrial shpw In opened 11 door Thursday at Cordon Rex one of who the e vrnt a and made a profit at well a making people more aware of industries In the community and encouraging Industries to trade with one another here In torn muni About exhibitor demonstrated their products and services to other trades people and members of the public The Rotary Club has already received requests for space at next year show Mr Iletlop said Herald photo of new design welding torches and attachments Henry Los Tight the attention of pimrrs with his wire figurines bent In the form of miniature musicians The demonstration was part of the Industry HO exhibit by Welding Supplies Herald photo Bruce Cartwright representing the firms of Die Mold and Tool and Northern Vibrator Manufacturing Ltd told The Herald that he felt Industry SO was an excellent show for small businesses display and sell their wares Halloo Hills rrst industrial trade show Industry SO has been judged success by its sponsors the exhibitors the public and local politicians Rex one of the Georgetown Rotary Club members involved in i tig Industry BO said the show was a success and the possibi of holding the event ally Is expected to become a certainty We did a survey of the exhibitors and most of them were satisfied with the response from the other trade people which was ly what they were there for Mr said We ve had a number of requests from companies who t able to make it this year for one reason or another and they wanl to participate next year Some of those who were here more space next year Mr said estimates place c attendance at the trade show al between and 300 people This year the Rotary Club dec ded hire professional consultants to help up the show to ensure that it was operated as a commercial enterprise and not as a community service project Mr said VISIBLE RESULTS The results of their work were visible in the profession of Ihe show and without waving our own flag or any thing like that people were impressed with hat professional quality There were booths with about exhibitors at he show and Mr Hcslop said the response o the questionnaire which Rotary Club circulated among the exhibit Indicated that most exhibitors had done enough business to justify their being In the show One of our original goals was to encourage trade between existing industries in town where companies make different products for each other Mr ttalton Hills Mayor Pete said he was very mprcsscd with the set up in Cordon Arena and with the professionalism of the prcsentaUon It was the best opportunity for to view industry he said The public response was most gratifying it appears the majority of the to come back next year region business development officer Bill Marshall incorporated the in show In a tour of Halloo Hills which be conducted for key real estate brokers from different areas of the region on Thursday to familiarize Ihem with Hills The brokers were given a tour of Hal too Hills which included the trade fair and a presentation on the region economic strategy or area FOCUS ATTENTION feel the major objective of the show which was to focus the attention of the community on the industry that is there in Ihe community I think the show achieved that objective Mr Marshall said think our ability to market the area as on industrial area has been enhanced by this show Mr Marshall commended the Rotary Club for Iheir In putting together a show in which toe community can Justifiably bike pride only industry but the arts benefitted from Industry Mr Heslop said the Rotary Club had a booth set up lo sell badges the proceeds of which are being donated lo the proposed library cultural centre He estimates thai 0 badges were sold during the fair raising about Joan Hewitt of Paul Armstrong Insurance House displays a model home at the firm I in Industry Thursday Armstrong Insurance was one or more than SO Georgetown con exhibiting at show Herald photo Old mills produce better flour than newer ones mill owner says Peel Bearing and Equipment Company Brampton dominated Industry with its 14 variety and Here company rep Lowe display an elaborate pencil sharpener assembled specialty to demonstrate the capabilities of Gates bearings and paUeya Herald photo by Stephen Frost By MAGGIE HANNAH Herald Special Lloyd owner of Zeig Flour Mills Ltd one of Acton oldest industries bet that old mills produce better flour than modem ones The new pneumatic ays tend to dry out the materials he says taking away the color flavor and natural moisture and giving it a higher ashcontent If his theory is right Mr may well be making the best flour in Canada since mill Is very old Although he can t find any actual con date It may date from the arrival of Adams after whom Acton was named They settled the area in Mr says he under stands the mill was built a round making It one of the If not the oldest still operating flour mill Canada A paragraph In Actons Early Days a book on the community a history says Fa ry Lake was a trout stream at the time of the Adams brother arrival and they dammed he stream to create ml water power and operate the mill No dale is given for construction of m however The 1877 County Alias peaks of what appears lohave been Adams mill as al I me of its printing The alias lays the did a business in their steam grist mill and ran a bakery in Ih it Dave Lindsay bought the mill from Tan after ihe first world war He rented it for a couple of years from Bob Lasby who had been using il chop cattle feed for area farm then later purchased it outright Three or four years after buying it Mr Lindsay says he installed the very first flour making equipment Mr Lindsay has no idea why owned the mill unless It was to control the amount of water used by the m so it would nol interfere with Ihe tannery operation Nor does he know how long the company owned the mill before he bought it Mr Lindsay sold the mill to J eight years ago and Mr bought it in 1977 Mr says the mill may have id additions over the years such as silos for grain storage but the original si ones true lure Is still in use as office and milling space THREE YEARS In his three years of owner ship he has doubled tion so that he now turns out 40kilogram bags per Mr Lindsay says the mill was producing barrels of flour a day and he had increas production to 125 barrels a day by the time he sold It It has been at least years since the mill operated on walcr power Mr says but the connect still there as evidence of the old mill history Considering Its age mill has apparently been rclalively accident free Dust and gases col Ice ling in grain storage ore two of the hazards hove resulted in disas res in many old mills who has worked in Ihe Acton mill for years says the closest they have come to a fire there was a lime when a bearing seized and a bell burned through starting a Nor have there apparently been any of the serious dents associated with other old mills Again Mr Elliott re calls a young helper who was when work in the very years ago of leaning up ngs while he was waiting and he leaned back nil the end of a shaft he says His sweater wound around it and it took him up He yelled and I grabbed his feet and hauled him down Peeled his sweater and shirt right off over his head and stripped him right down lo the skin Mr nods and agrees lhat a lol of men got killed thai way In old mills Today guards protect workmen from such hazards Mr started his own career as a miller as lad of 15 working for his brother inlaw in Hanover He thought it was a terrific job and years later his enthusiasm for his trade is still evident The Acton mill is the first one he has actually owned but over years he has a crack at alt types of milling from semi Una for pasta in to rye flours in Scotland and even working with a waterpowered mill at Preston in the days before It was CAKE FLOUR Right now Mr Is making cake flour for a larger bakery and also for a candy making company which uses flour to make licorice He also has light and dark rye flour available and expects within three months to have bread flours and whole wheat flour available from his own m 11 The bakery in is urging him to gel into bread flour production and Pine Val ley Farms near and towards Milton use his flour for their baked goods He also supplies flours to the health food store in Acton Mr approve of all the additives found in so many flours and hopes he can expand his lines of whole wheat flour the bran and shorts left In it As well as he bulk sales to large corporal he is interested in sales or much smaller quan titles of flour to local people over the counter In his Mill Street office Samples of his products are on display there for shoppers Interested in buy ing from the miller Mr Zc takes pride In his work and Is equally proud to explain that the Aclon mill is a family operation His son Ken works with him full time a long with Mr Ell oil and his daughter works in office part time Nor mn is secretary- 1 reasurer of the business Their arc too young yet to be involved he says The family lives on Lake in only is he encouraging own family get involved in the bus Mr Zcigler also feels it still lias a future for young people looking for a Not enough young people arc showing an interest in it he says There a good In flour milling and there nothing to prevent a girl from learning now BAGS Since the days of slugging heavy bags of grain and flour over the shoulder are long gone the idea that a girl handle milling just valid any more he says A woman could apply her self to learning to set the grinders just as if not better than a man he says The Aclon mill won hae to undergo structural additions in order to make room for expan sion Mr says Modern mills lake far less room with modern equipment than the old ones did so be has more than enough space where he is to make any changes he may In future In fact required nothing more than adjusting and what he calls f tuning existing equip ment The mill has bushels of wheal storage space in its silos and he stores wheat for the wheat marketing board in them In harvest season farm ers from as far away as Stayner and Wood stock along with local farmers bring in their wheat to be graded priced and stored for Ihe board in his silos then bought as he uses it If he runs out through the year he can purchase additional wheat from board and pick It up from another storage facility To the best of his knowledge Ihe Acton mill has never slop ped In the mort than a century since Its construe and Lloyd seems determined to sec he carries on tradition Acton floor mill may be the eldest floor mill In Canada bat owner can confirm the date of the muTi He tonka It was balls IBS after the Adams brothers arrived In Aclon They dammed Fairy Lake which was a treat stream at the lime to create enough power la operate the mltL Hrrald photo